Jury Awards $3.4 Million After Patron Slips on Wet Marble Floor at Paris Las Vegas

Jesse Lozano was 60 years old when he walked through the main thoroughfare of the Paris Las Vegas resort in 2018 after attending a show. He slipped on a puddle of liquid on the marble floor and went down hard. The fall produced cervical spine injuries that required a series of injections and nerve ablations, implanted spinal cord stimulators, and ultimately surgery.

Lozano filed suit against Paris Las Vegas Operating Company LLC in Clark County. The case proceeded to a 10-day jury trial before Judge Danielle Pieper in the Eighth Judicial District Court, running from late March into mid-April 2026, with the jury returning its verdict that April.

The Ladah team, led by Ramzy Ladah along with Joseph Chu and Donald Paradiso, focused the liability case on the casino's maintenance practices. They argued the casino could not produce records showing how frequently staff conducted floor sweeps in the area, and could not establish how long the liquid had been present before Lozano fell. Under Nevada premises liability law, a property owner who cannot account for the duration of a hazardous condition faces serious exposure.

Defense attorneys from the Brandon Smerber Law Firm pushed back on both liability and causation. They suggested the liquid on the floor may have come from beverages Lozano was carrying himself, noting he had a beer in hand and a flask in his back pocket. They also argued no independent witness had seen liquid on the floor before the fall.

The jury sided with Lozano on liability but split fault evenly: 50 percent to the casino, 50 percent to Lozano. On damages, the panel awarded $3,445,000. Under Nevada's comparative negligence statute, the collectible share attributable to the casino comes to approximately $1.725 million. The verdict was reported by Courtroom View Network, which provided full video coverage of the trial.